Klox and Katz Ink
Clockwise Cat Issue 38, aka Klox and Katz Ink, is dripping with delightful decoration of the Verse, Visual, reView and inVective variety! Poems exploding from our inkwells include those from authors Mary Newell, Jeri Thompson, Heath Brougher, Featured Femme Tara Roeder, Holly Day, AJ Huffman, Daniel Crocker, Ken Allan Dronsfeld, Austin Alexis, Judith Huang, CL Bledsoe. Further bursting forth from our inky loins are satires and rants by Steven Singer, Jon Wesick, Fred White, Selah Grenewood, Eric Suhem, Joshua Hall. And our canvas is positively bleeding visuals by the eminent talents Sheila Murphy and Bob Heman, plus collages and photomanipulations by Nelly Sanchez, Erica Olson, and Seigar. But wait - there's more! Our pages are sticky with the reviews of the latest CDs by Kendrick Lamar and Run The Jewels, as well as appraisals of recently released flix Kedi, Detroit and Julieta. We even showcase an interview with the AfroSurreal Writers of Oakland, California! So whaddya waitin' fer? Get thee to the inkery! www.clockwisecat.com
Clockwise Cat Issue 38, aka Klox and Katz Ink, is dripping with delightful decoration of the Verse, Visual, reView and inVective variety!
Poems exploding from our inkwells include those from authors Mary Newell, Jeri Thompson, Heath Brougher, Featured Femme Tara Roeder, Holly Day, AJ Huffman, Daniel Crocker, Ken Allan Dronsfeld, Austin Alexis, Judith Huang, CL Bledsoe. Further bursting forth from our inky loins are satires and rants by Steven Singer, Jon Wesick, Fred White, Selah Grenewood, Eric Suhem, Joshua Hall. And our canvas is positively bleeding visuals by the eminent talents Sheila Murphy and Bob Heman, plus collages and photomanipulations by Nelly Sanchez, Erica Olson, and Seigar. But wait - there's more! Our pages are sticky with the reviews of the latest CDs by Kendrick Lamar and Run The Jewels, as well as appraisals of recently released flix Kedi, Detroit and Julieta. We even showcase an interview with the AfroSurreal Writers of Oakland, California! So whaddya waitin' fer? Get thee to the inkery! www.clockwisecat.com
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And when it comes to voucher schools, imagine selling a tax cut to a wealthy family as if<br />
it somehow benefited poor folks. Letting the Walton’s pocket a few thous<strong>and</strong> from their<br />
kids exclusive private school tuition doesn’t help Ma <strong>and</strong> Pa Six Pack. Nor does offering<br />
a discount to the kind of parochial schools that brainwash kids into thinking that<br />
evolution is evil, climate change is a Chinese conspiracy, <strong>and</strong> slavery was just God’s will.<br />
It’s the difference between trying to sell a glossy fraud like KIPP’s charter school<br />
network <strong>and</strong> an obvious one like the President’s Trump University.<br />
But now everyone sees they’re essentially the same. No wonder these faux reformers<br />
look so down.<br />
Imagine pushing st<strong>and</strong>ardized tests as if they were a technological breakthrough. They’ve<br />
been around since at least China’s Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). If that’s cutting<br />
edge, I think you’ll like my new APP. It’s called The Wheel!<br />
In America, st<strong>and</strong>ardized tests have been around since the 1910s where they were a<br />
leading feature of the eugenicist movement. They were a tool to “prove” the racial<br />
imperfection of black <strong>and</strong> brown people <strong>and</strong> the superiority of whites. Imagine<br />
dem<strong>and</strong>ing something like that as a civil right!<br />
I couldn’t do it with a straight face. But they did! And it worked! For a little while.<br />
Now their whole pyramid scheme is just too damn clear. Make the kids take unfair,<br />
biased tests that will show how few resources poor black kids get <strong>and</strong> then use that as a<br />
justification for giving them fewer resources, closing their schools <strong>and</strong> privatizing them.<br />
No one’s even tried a scam that blatant since Bernie Madoff went to prison!<br />
What do they have to gain by all this? Money.<br />
St<strong>and</strong>ardized testing is a multi-billion dollar industry. School privatization is a multibillion<br />
dollar industry. If you can find a way to suck up federal, state <strong>and</strong> local tax dollars<br />
meant to educate children <strong>and</strong> divert that into your private bank account, well you’ve just<br />
struck it rich!<br />
Racism pays, folks! Prejudice pays! Because the majority doesn’t mind so much when<br />
you take advantage of the underprivileged. That’s why they’re underprivileged in the first<br />
place!<br />
And when people like me speak out against them, the best they can do are Ad hominem<br />
attacks – you’re too white to question policy affecting black people, or your friends are
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